Total Wine & More Brings Suit to Invalidate Mobile App Patents

Sept. 12, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

Retail Services & Systems Inc., which operates the Total Wine & More retail chain, filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that three of S3G Technology LLC’s patents are invalid for claiming ineligible subject matter.

S3G Technology’s US Patent Nos. 9,081,897, 9,940,124, and 9,304,758 are directed to the abstract idea of remotely updating software to change user prompts displayed on a device, RSSI alleged in a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It said the claims recite only generic computer components performing conventional functions and lack an inventive concept that ...

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